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Data communication d.3 content crawler

The d.3 content crawler allows you to read e-mails from various sources and store them in the d.3 repository. In this process, journal, user, group and functional mailboxes can be monitored.

The d.3 content crawler consists of the following modules:

  • d.3 content crawler service

  • d.ecs content crawler

  • d.ecs groupware

d.3 content crawler service

The d.3 content crawler service is a Windows service reading the configuration via the d.ecs content crawler (6.1.3) and processing the respective mailboxes. The service determines which e-mails are to be processed based on the configuration. For each e-mail to be processed, a job is generated in d.ecs content crawler.

d.ecs content crawler

d.ecs content crawler is a self-hosted app (backend service) used to configure e-mail archiving. Additionally, the archiving jobs are centrally managed.

Configuration

The configuration is persistently stored in d.ecs jstore. d.ecs content crawler provides the respective user interfaces to administer the configuration.

Job management

The archiving jobs are generated by d.3 content crawler service (6.1.2). They are managed via d.ecs content crawler. If an e-mail is successfully stored in the d.3 repository, the respective archiving job is deleted from the system. If an error occurs when processing an e-mail, the entitled administrator can view the cause via the d.ecs content crawler interface and resolve it immediately. Jobs which could not be deleted from the system after the cause was resolved can be manually deleted via the user interface.

d.ecs groupware

d.ecs groupware is a self-hosted app (backend service) that directly processes e-mail objects and passes them to d.ecs dms for further processing.

d.ecs groupware temporarily stores the e-mails for processing. This cache directory is cleared immediately after the e-mail has been processed.

Connection to Microsoft Exchange

d.ecs groupware uses the Exchange Web Service (EWS) protocol to access Microsoft Exchange.

Connection to IBM Domino

For d.ecs groupware to access IBM Domino, the d.ecs domino service must be installed on one of the IBM Domino servers. This is integrated into IBM Domino as a servlet.

d.ecs domino temporarily stores the e-mails for processing. This cache directory is cleared immediately after the e-mail has been processed.

The mail systems are accessed via an encrypted connection.